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Scythian Heraclean Bow: Stone Inscription of Archery Record Found in Ukraine
Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...
Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows
Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
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The panic Ukrainian Zaporizhian Cossacks’ Black Sea naval raids caused in...
Comte de Césy (full name Philippe de Harlay, comte de Césy) was the French Ambassador to Istanbul (then Constantinople) during the early 17th century. According...
Odesa, the craddle of Israeli culture, enjoys a Jewish Rennaissance
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Anatoly Dyatlov was pressured by Moscow to proceed with the Chornobyl...
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Strongest Soviet invasion Army of WW2. What was it doing in...
Modern Russian as well as former Soviet propagandists have been trying to imply that the USSR began to form its armies only after World...
Hague International Criminal Court publishes a Preliminary Report
"266. ...The Office also assessed that direct military engagement between the respective armed forces of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, indicated the existence of an...
Stalin revived Russian Orthodox Church to better control Ukraine
Kathryn David, a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State: "In September 1943, as the tide of the Second World...
The Rus army used ‘Sulaymani’ swords, – 10th-century Persian explorer ibn...
According to Wikipedia, Ahmad ibn Rustah was a tenth-century Muslim Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta, Isfahan in the Abbasid Caliphate. He wrote a geographical compendium known as the Kitāb al-A‘lāq al-Nafīsa ('Book...
Sevastopol – the city of Ukrainian Valor: Crimean War of 1854
Both Russian historical science and propaganda present the slogan “Sevastopol is the city of Russian glory” as an undeniable truth. They linked it, first...
‘The Tale of Igor’s Campaign’ is a Ukrainian epic about repelling...
Per Wikipedia, 'The Tale of Igor's Campaign' is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. Britannica calls the poem 'The...
Ukraine Can Fly
Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv and before immigrating to the United States and founding Sikorsky Aicraft Corporation there, became famous by building world’s first four-engine...
First Sputnik was launched Oct. 4, 1957. Korolev, Glushko were two...
Asif Azam Siddiqi is a professor of history with a specialization in the history of science and technology. When the Soviet archives opened in the 1990s,...
